In message <20000301203745.B27692@tome.neutralgood.org>, "Kevin P. Neal" writes
:
>On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 06:23:04PM -0500, Scott Bartram wrote:
>> Wow, this Single Instance Store sure is an incredible advance in computing..
>.
>> Do you think we can implement something like this for NetBSD?
>> 
>> http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/02-28w2k.asp
>
>Kidding, right?
>
>Sounds like a waste of time, a bunch of extra complexity that's going
>to break sometime, or just plain unneeded (at least on Unix).

So far as I can tell, it's a cross-network link.

This is not an "incredible advance in computing".  It's NFS+symlink.

Be still, my beating heart; in the last 10 seconds, I have just duplicated
the effects of a one and a half year Microsoft research project.

Seriously, it really would be that easy if you wanted to do it.  I'm not sure
it would be worth it.  Honestly, the symlinks are probably optional.

Imagine that you wanted to have /var/www/docs (sorry for using the BSD/OS
path instead of the NetBSD one, but I'm more used to it) be the same on each
of a number of servers.

Behold, the majesty of NFS:
	mount fileserver:/var/www/docs /var/www/docs

Woo-hoo!  We're caught up again.

-s